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About Minami Tamaki LLP

Established in 1974, Minami Tamaki LLP serves clients with legal needs related to Consumer and Employee Rights, Immigration and Nationality, Personal Injury, and Corporate and Business.

Our firm has earned an "AV" rating by the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, the highest rating for professional competence and ethics issued by that publication, and reserved for attorneys judged to be outstanding.

Our attorneys have been recognized as "SuperLawyers" by Law & Politics Magazine, one of the top 500 lawyers in the country by LawDragon magazine and as some of the best attorneys in the Bay Area by Bay Area Lawyer Magazine.

The Minami Tamaki LLP law firm has named Sean Tamura-Sato as Partner, effective January 1, 2017. He has been an attorney in the firm’s Consumer and Employee Rights Group since August 2007.

“Sean has helped lead or been an integral part of every major case in our consumer and employee rights practice in the past decade,” said Partner Jack W. Lee. “He has played a critical role in our success representing tens of thousands of individuals in class action and individual cases. We look forward to Sean’s continued leadership in our firm.”

Minami Tamaki’s Consumer & Employee Rights Group litigates class actions and individual cases on behalf of consumers, investors, and employees who have been harmed by illegal or unfair business or employment practices. The group has recovered tens of millions of dollars for its clients.

Sean represents clients in complex business disputes, with an emphasis on employment law, business torts, breach of contract, and class actions. He has successfully tried employment discrimination and wrongful termination cases in federal court and before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

He has been involved in some of the largest class action cases on behalf of consumers in the history of antitrust law, including the In re TFT-LCD (flat panel) Antitrust Litigation. Sean also has substantial experience representing low-wage and immigrant workers in actions combating wage theft and worker exploitation.

Sean has been recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyer Rising Star from 2013 through 2016. He is a member of the California and Hawai’i bars. Sean received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.Congratulations, Sean!